You're Bamboozled, Sucker

Via the People's Cube, "'Thank You Sucker' Motivational Currency Replaces Dollar":

Obama won the election with a rhetoric that skillfully replaced the words "socialist revolution" with the word "change." Now he is skillfully replacing the word "recession" with "catastrophe." The next logical step is to keep the economy running by replacing "dollar" with "thank you."

But see also, Vinegar and Honey, "The Big Bamboozle":

I think that generations from now ... we will look back and tell our children that this was the moment when our country got sold out, when we lost hope of ever again being able to believe in what was good, and right, and honorable ... that this was the moment of the beginning of the end of our once great nation.

I can't add anything to that, so read the whole thing, here.